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Coming to America for the first time after his recent escape from a German prison camp, Claude Guy, former second lieutenant in the French infantry, laid his country's defeat to the lack of military and industrial preparation...
Propaganda-wise, the Nazis were getting in effective work by promising Moroccans that Germany would buy their surpluses of wheat, cattle and vegetables that France used to ignore. Helping spread the word were 25,000 native ex-soldiers who were released from Nazi prison camps after an intensive course of Hitler-talk...
...Manhattan Federal court 58-year-old Joe Schenck, board chairman of 20th Century-Fox Film Corp., heard himself sentenced to $20,000 fine, three years in prison, for evading $250,000 in Federal income taxes. His co-defendant and assistant, Joseph Moskowitz, was sentenced to a year and a day and fined $10,000 for "aiding and abetting." Shocked by his sentence, Movieman Schenck recovered to ride out to LaGuardia Field, bid good-by to his friends Norma Shearer and Lady Ashley (Douglas Fairbanks' widow) as they left for Hollywood...
Worse than the police was the cold prison. Young had nothing to sit down on but the damp cell floor. At last Ambassador Grew sent Young his sealskin-lined overcoat. Grew is over six feet tall; Young, much shorter. When Young turned up the coat collar, he was covered from head to foot. Young soon discovered that the Ambassador's coat gave him a certain diplomatic immunity. "As long as I had it on, the police would recognize it as Ambassador Crew's property. Removed, I was just another reporter." Young never took it off, wore it even...
Once Walter Winchell nearly got Young into trouble. Winchell broadcast: "What are they holding you for, spreading peace rumors?" Spreading peace rumors in Japan is a prison offense. When the police asked what Winchell meant, Young told them: "In New York they have a different dialect from my part of the country, and I cannot understand Winchell-san's dialect...